{"id":2034,"date":"2014-02-27T14:26:22","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T19:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=2034"},"modified":"2014-02-27T14:27:51","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T19:27:51","slug":"more-health-exchange-troubles-for-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=2034","title":{"rendered":"More Health Exchange Troubles for Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/md-politics\/major-flaw-in-md-health-site-may-mean-30-million-in-unnecessary-medicaid-payments\/2014\/02\/27\/4092eb06-9f2f-11e3-a050-dc3322a94fa7_story.html?hpid=z2\">Washington Post <\/a>has the story:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A single flaw in Maryland\u2019s troubled online health insurance system will cost the state an estimated $30.5 million in excess Medicaid payments over the next 18 months because the system cannot accurately identify recipients who should be removed from the rolls, a <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.washingtonpost.com\/g\/documents\/local\/maryland-health-exchange-report\/834\/\" data-xslt=\"_http\">report by state budget officials<\/a> said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The State <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/md-politics\/maryland-to-fire-its-health-care-exchange-contractor\/2014\/02\/24\/50df0490-9ce6-11e3-ad71-e03637a299c0_story.html\">has fired the contractor<\/a> for its health exchange website but this problem just does not seem to want to go away. If anything, the increased functionality of the federal website just heightens the glare of Maryland&#8217;s continuing problems. Not a good news day for Lt. Gov. Brown who would like the focus to turn elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post has the story: A single flaw in Maryland\u2019s troubled online health insurance system will cost the state an estimated $30.5 million in excess Medicaid payments over the next 18 months because the system cannot accurately identify recipients who should be removed from the rolls, a report by state budget officials said. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=2034\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More Health Exchange Troubles for Brown<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,71,180,81],"tags":[1534,462],"class_list":["post-2034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthony-brown","category-doug-gansler","category-health-care","category-heather-mizeur","tag-anthony-brown","tag-health-care-exchange"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-wO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2035,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions\/2035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}